Although Saudi Arabia has always been notorious for its beheadings without proper trials, the Gulf kingdom has come under increased international criticism after five foreigners were executed in May last year.

In fact, it was once reported that Saudi Arabia was beheading people at the same rate (and for the similar reasons) the terrorist Islamic State decapitates people. To make matters worse, Western leaders, including the United States, have been criminally silent over atrocities by Saudi Arabia — mostly due to vested economic and strategic interests.

Just last October, British Prime Minister David Cameron famously tried to dodge questions from Channel 4’s journalist Jon Snow as to why the U.K. government considers Riyadh an ally despite abhorrent human rights abuses such as mass executions and the mass murder of civilians in Yemen.